The common theme continues to be Troubled Youth (OR) when we,
as an Adult society talk drugs, it immediately turns to KIDS.
Sue me if you like, but, if the 1936 debut of Reefer Madness
marks 70 years of drug awareness education? How are we doing?
Did we graduate yet? Deflective terms prevent solutions. In the
50's, it was those troubled Beat-Nicks, 60's, it was those Damn
Hippies, 70's, corporate America was doing more Coke than all
the High Schools across our land, and you bet we taught the world
to sing.

The youth drug problem in America
is nothing more than the Adult drug problem via trickle down
drug-o-nomics. So to those who had a lot to say about some local
athletes that may (big may) have disappointed some adults with
big moralistic opinions? I say this, none of them knocked up
Mary K Letourneau to my knowledge, but they all were under a
random drug urinalysis policy. Therefore they live up to higher
standards than the 10th grade teacher from Overland Colorado
who was tape recorded in class ranting for 20 minutes, comparing
Bush to Hitler, and associating the American flag to the Nazi
Emblem. Drug test Michael Moore and Snoop Dawgs performance,
it's enhanced for sure. Mold my society please.

An Oscar winner said the other
night, "The Arts is a hammer molding society."

Charles Barkley said, "I
am not a role model, parents are."

I will say, "Wake up America,
we are drug testing the wrong Sub-Group of humans."

I will never be nice about
this subject, because being nice and using deflective terms has
not worked for America since Reefer Madness. Rickey (Running
Back) Williams is the problem! Damn Jocks! Raphael Palmerio is
the problem! Just ask the old guys on the performance enhancer
Viagra, or Emenem when he raps out, I hate my Mom and let's burn
down the Trailer Park. Yo-Yo role model, influence the young-uns.

Either get drug testing out
of here completely, or test every motor vehicle operator doing
55 mph in a 4000 lb object. Oh wait, that won't allow us to finger
point, and deflect anymore. Let's just test people who play sports.
And the rest can talk a big drug free game. We certainly wouldn't
want an athlete to influence the score of a game, without absolute
clarity of mind.

If Pete Rose was a 1st grader
today, he would be medicated for hyperactivity disorder, he would
bore of T-Ball because keeping score hurts feelings and he would
still end up being the problem, even though he did not hit the
most 90 mile an hour fast balls than any other man alive or dead.
I am late for sensitivity class, I am trying to change, and therefore,
I am the victim. And America will never elect me to be drug prevention
Czar, America likes its drugs too much. It AIN'T the Kids that
are the problem.

Ken Lewis
Ketchikan, AK - USA

About: Ken Lewis is a long
time resident of Ketchikan.

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